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Android User Interface made easy is ideal for beginners as it not only covers the User Interface in detail, but also includes 34 tutorials with line by line commentary: The areas covered are:  User Interface - a brief overview of the User Interface introducing the key components; Views, ViewGroups, Layouts, UI Events, Menus, Adapters, Styles and Themes.  Declaring layouts - the layout defines the arrangement of the elements on the screen. It also contains all these elements. We cover layouts here in more detail, explaining how to create a layout file and how to use it in your application.  Creating menus - Android uses Option and Context menus. We cover both in detail using a tutorial.  Creating dialogs - dialogs are the small windows appearing in front of your application ...

Android is the most popular mobile platform, running on almost 60% of the world’s smartphones and tablets. By June 2012, 400 million Android devices had been activated and one million more Android devices are being activated every day. More than one and a half BILLION apps and games are downloaded each month! As you can see, the Android market is huge. If you’re thinking of developing the next big Android app. Or maybe you just want to write an app to use on your smartphone or tablet. Where do you start? The internet is awash with information which can be quite confusing. There are also many books out there but which one is right for you? This ebook will give you a broad understanding of Android. It will answer questions like: • What is Android? • What are the parts of an Andro...

Both buyers and sellers can benefit from current pricing information and insightful analysis in the world of coins on eBay. Covered in the newsletter are eBay sales of coins, currency, exonumia , and precious metals that occurred in July 2012. Also provided is a "Market Rating" for each area of the market to point out items that are "hot" or "cold"....

There are no 'official' rules governing electronic communication. While there have been attempts to establish one standard or another as the default, there is no common agreement. So beware people telling you there is one right way, they are assuming too much. As a general rule though, netiquette involves the same principles as plain old etiquette -- basic courtesy, respect and ethics. Treat people the way you would want to be treated yourself. By following the principles outlined below, the recipient of your email will be more likely to read and act, if not be favorably impressed by your message: Subject line to summarise the message. Make the Subject line summarise the body of the e-mail. Ask yourself, 'will the recipient know what this e-mail is about'. For example, Instead of Subject: ...

This collection of articles and blog entries is representative of the full spectrum of commerce-related content we’ve published on PayPal’s Developer Network over the past year. You will find tutorials and quick reference pieces for developers. With the creation of x.commerce we have expanded our coverage to address the needs of eBay and Magento developers and you can expect to see more content focused on helping both the developer and merchant communities in the coming year. Our team has covered a wide variety of topics including building mobile shopping carts, QR codes, working with various PayPal APIs, including how to integrate PayPal with other technologies such as WordPress. Three main themes have emerged in the commerce world today: Mobile, Social, and Local. Expect to see mor...

Acclaimed data scientist DJ Patil details a new approach to solving problems in Data Jujitsu. Learn how to use a problem's "weight" against itself to: Break down seemingly complex data problems into simplified parts Use alternative data analysis techniques to examine them Use human input, such as Mechanical Turk, and design tricks that enlist the help of your users to take short cuts around tough problems Learn more about the problems before starting on the solutions—and use the findings to solve them, or determine whether the problems are worth solving at all....

In the early days of the 20th century, department store magnate John Wanamaker famously said, "I know that half of my advertising doesn't work. The problem is that I don't know which half." That remained basically true until Google transformed advertising with AdSense based on new uses of data and analysis. The same might be said about health care and it's poised to go through a similar transformation as new tools, techniques, and data sources come on line. Soon we'll make policy and resource decisions based on much better understanding of what leads to the best outcomes, and we'll make medical decisions based on a patient's specific biology. The result will be better health at less cost. This paper explores how data analysis will help us structure the business of health care more effect...

HTML5 is revolutionizing the Web, and now it's coming to your ebook reader! With the release of the EPUB 3 specification, HTML5 support is officially a part of the EPUB standard, and publishers are able to take full advantage of HTML5's rich feature set to add rich media and interactivity to their ebook content. HTML5 for Publishers gives an overview of some of the most exciting features HTML5 provides to ebook content creators--audio/video, geolocation, and the Canvas--and shows how to put them in action. Learn how to: Intersperse audio/video with textual content Create a graphing calculator to display algebraic equations on the Canvas Use geolocation to customize a work of fiction with details from the reader's locale Employ MathML to create an interactive equation solver Make a color...

Cascading Style Sheets is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it’s spread to nearly every corner of the Web—as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you’ll learn how CSS makes it possible for you to completely change the way document elements are presented by a user agent. You’ll discover the origins of this specification and how CSS styles work with HTML. Learn how you can choose style sheets based on the features of a given media type, including desktop screens, web-enabled phones, digital projectors, TVs, Braille devices, print documents, and even various audio renderings of a document. CSS and Documents is an excerpt from the forthcoming 4th edition of CSS: The Definit...

Have we entered the age of NoOps infrastructures? Hardly. Old-style system administrators may be disappearing in the face of automation and cloud computing, but operations have become more significant than ever. As this O’Reilly Radar Report explains, we’re moving into a more complex arrangement known as "DevOps." Mike Loukides, O’Reilly’s VP of Content Strategy, provides an incisive look into this new world of operations, where IT specialists are becoming part of the development team. In an environment with thousands of servers, these specialists now write the code that maintains the infrastructure. Even applications that run in the cloud have to be resilient and fault tolerant, need to be monitored, and must adjust to huge swings in load. That was underscored by Amazon’s EBS o...

Introducing Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 explores the exciting enhancements and new capabilities engineered into SQL Server, ranging from improvements in operation to those in reporting and management. This book is for anyone who has an interest in SQL Server 2012 and wants to understand its capabilities, including database administrators, application developers, and technical decision makers....

In just six minutes you will learn something useful about IPv6, the new version of the Internet Protocol. Start your journey towards learning more about this important new technology with this short and easy to read publication. Get valuable tips for commencing your own IPv6 project and some references for further study and research....

The most important sentence in any story is the very first one, and yet it is commonly neglected by novice writers. This simple advice guide uses real examples from works already published on Smashwords and examines some of the various tricks a writer can use with an opening sentence and also some of the common errors that can start turning the reader against your story before you've even got started. It demonstrates the importance of the opening line and how it can be used to create atmosphere, character and the vital 'hook' that captures the reader's interest....

This e-booklet is designed to help folks who want to e-publish on Kindle and already have a completed book that has been correctly formatted in Microsoft Word . This isn't an extensive tome about the nuts and bolts of e-publishing. Several good books already available cover that topic. This is simply a short tutorial for uploading your e-book to KDP/Kindle from Microsoft Word. The instructions are clearly presented and supported with screen captures including directional arrows. In order to use the instructions successfully you will need to know how to use the following Windows tools and features: Clipboard Notepad Internet Explorer Desktop Find File/Save As It's my sincere hope that this e-booklet will save you some time and frustration, helping you realize your dream of publishing your ...

Joanie Clarke is a 40+ year old, single mother of teenagers. Life circumstances put her at some disadvantages in the workplace. Single parenting is not easy. Perseverance and a positive attitude took her from going nowhere employment to successful entrepreneurship in the online world of selling. If Joanie can do it, so can you!...

List a blog. Read a blog. Join a blog. A list of blogs from all corners of the BlogSphere that can be described in three words - Awesomeness, Interesting, Pass-It-On . There is something for anyone and everyone who blogs....

A white paper that examines the substantial benefits telepresence is delivering at Cognizant, including smoother internal meet¬ings; more effective and productive client meetings; substantially lower travel costs with a smaller carbon footprint; and a better work/life balance for our associates....

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The nail biting tale of the Trollbuster General’s adventures whilst hunting cyber trolls on a popular Internet pen pal site. It’s a gonzo-style journey through the fetid underbelly of the World Wide Web. A journey that will make you think twice about seeking friends online. And who better to wear the mantle of the Trollbuster General? The author, a professional writer, has himself been accused of troll like behaviour. Labelled a “sarcasshole” on David Cameron’s website, he brought an Internet flamers forum to a standstill. Smelling blood, he joined the self-styled premier flamers forum and had his privileges revoked. Thereby proving that they could dish it out, but they couldn’t take it! After that the trolls stood no chance......

Web content filters like Dansguardian or POESIA on Linux and SafeSquid on Windows and Linux block out undesirable content. Ironically, after installation and configuration of such a content filter the standard way to test it is to attempt to visit one of those very websites one wishes to block. While that kind of a final check may be reasonable to conduct in certain situations, it should be preceded by a safer method – one that cannot expose the user to hardcore porn even if the blocker fails. This book will give you that method to test your content filter which you have set up to guard your computer's browsers. As a bonus you also receive access to a set of web shortcuts …...

Volume 23 was the other half of the manuscript written in Volume 22 that got cut in half. The content was dedicated to "Tron: Legacy" because a movie about a Game Grid is the best way to explain the…...

Do you spend more time reading email than you'd like? Do you waste time looking for files on your hard drive? Do Facebook and Twitter take a bigger chunk out of your day than they should? In this era of information overload, it's harder than ever to stay focused and productive when working on the computer. This short ebook will help you eliminate virtual clutter and streamline your time online. ISBN: 978-1-4657-9853-4...

Java 7 has a number of features that will please developers. Madhusudhan Konda provides an overview of these, including strings in switch statements, multi-catch exception handling, try-with-resource statements, the new File System API, extensions of the JVM, support for dynamically-typed languages, and the fork and join framework for task parallelism....

Consumer networks have revolutionized the way companies understand and reach their customers, making possible intricate measurement and accurate prediction at every step of every transaction. The same revolution is underway in our infrastructure, where new generations of sensor-laden power plants, cars and medical devices will generate vast quantities of data that could bring about improvements in quality, reliability and cost. Big machines will enter the modern era of big data, where they'll be subject to constant analysis and optimization. The promise of the industrial internet is that it will bring intelligence to industries that are capital-intensive and create broad value that all of the industrial internet's participants will share. This report examines the industrial internet acro...

Internet-scale computing—popularly known as big data—has more disruptive potential than any information technology in the past 40 years. As author Jeffrey Needham points out in this eye-opening book, big data can provide unprecedented insight into user habits, giving enterprises a huge market advantage. It will also inspire organizations to change the way they function. Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything takes you on a journey of discovery into the emerging world of big data, from its relatively simple technology to the ways it differs from cloud computing. But the big story of big data is the disruption of enterprise status quo, especially vendor-driven technology silos and budget-driven departmental silos. In the highly collaborative environment needed to mak...

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